the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
By moving right on immigration & other key issues, and generally coming off as incompetent (esp on cost of living), UK Labour is losing vote share to left-wing parties AND to right-leaning ones. This is what happens when a party appeases its opponents & loses its core identity.
The overbearing workload required to correctly cast a ballot is a feature of the policy choices made by Republicans, not a bug. Their hope is that, if they erect enough barriers to the ballot box, it will convince the “wrong” type of voters to simply give up.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/05/m...
I get a lot of questions these days about data from BLS and other agencies. Some of this is about fears of political interference. Some of it is about the reliability of the data, especially in light of recent big revisions. In a story today, I tried to tackle both.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...
HUGE payrolls miss, wow
Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev
The economic story just changed dramatically.
Payrolls fell -92k in Feb. Jan growth was revised down by -4k to +126k. And Dec revisions subtracted -64k to -17k.
Unemployment rate up a tick to 4.4%.
Recession questions are back on the menu
Ukraine today accused Hungary of detaining seven employees of the state-owned Oschadbank and seizing millions in cash and gold.
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
www.wsj.com/business/med...
two astronauts scheduled to go up on the same shuttle mission in 1992 got married 9 months beforehand but kept it a secret from everyone bc NASA wouldn't have let them go up if they had known. do i have to draw you a diagram
Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
people.com/trump-says-i...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales ends his reelection bid after admitting to having an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide.
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Reasons a cis women might have Y chromosomes:
- Twin brother
- Gestating a child with a Y chromosome
- Bone marrow transfusion from someone with a Y chromosome
- Being intersex (we know of XY women who have naturally conceived and given birth)
I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...
i think when we get a final reckoning of how much Noem has personally profited from her office this question might answer itself
The civil contempt hearing Judge Tunheim ordered US Atty Dan Rosen to attend today, concerning late or no return of detainees' property in ~5 cases, should not be confused with the one Judge Bryan ordered Rosen to attend Tuesday concerning the same issue in ~25 other cases. ...
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Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.
“NBC's Kristen Welker asked Mullin what should happen to babies born in the United States whose parents are deported, given that the children are U.S. citizens under current law.
'Well, they should go where their parents are,’ said Mullin, of Oklahoma.”
This is incredible. UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
Spent hours talking to friends & Iraqi contacts who know far more a/b Iraq than I do. All of us are getting mixed messages. Neither federal Iraq nor KRI want to get involved in a regional conflict. KDP & PUK would be risking a lot to back this kind of plan. The Turkish reaction issue is huge.
This is quite an amazing thing for a sitting US senator to say.
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“Proportional systems also have a unique advantage when applied to the U.S. context: It is possible to achieve fair representation for voters of color without race-conscious districting. In fact, [PR] makes gerrymandering functionally impossible if enough seats are elected per district.”
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD
GREAT new resource from us:
You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials.
See what they own --and how much they're worth.
See who's worked where-- and how much they banked.
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DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.
As Iranian drones attack neighbouring countries, we joined a team of Supreme Court Judges who have been trained to shoot down drones over Kyiv.
Ukraine is the only one that knows how to protect its airspace from such threats, a tool it can offer to other countries amid the war.
It'll be inevitable. Paramount/WB is going to be carrying $80b in debt after this merger, $60b from the buyout alone.
Assume they're getting 7% interest rates (which they're not, the debt is rated junk), that's $4b in debt payments every year just for the merger.
